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Armyworms, which can strip pastures and hayfields bare as they march across the landscape, are showing up Missouri, near Joplin and eastward to Hermann and Montgomery City, says Wayne Bailey, MU entomologist.
The 2013 hay season, with little sunshine and lots of rain, increases interest in making baleage, or silage in a bag, says Rob Kallenbach, University of Missouri Extension forage specialist.
The drought has had lasting effects on farmers across the country—cattlemen in particular.
Even after storms dumped many inches of snow in February, water shortages and dirt-dry pastures across the Great Plains are shrinking herds.
Low available mineral nitrogen limits grass production more than low water on grassland pastures.
Winter wheat could still present good grain opportunities for farmers, experts say, but a lack of moisture has stressed pastures.
Ammoniation increases the digestibility and crude protein content of forage, improves intake and inhibits mold development.
Restocking may be an option for some, but rainfall and other factors will weigh heavily into the decision-making process.
With ramifications of the drought in the Southern Plains still being felt, producers should take precautions for forage production in 2012.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Beef Team offers some insight and research the get the most from this type of grazing crop residue.
New Mexico State University researchers investigate targeted grazing strategies to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
Some fall rains making it appear as though some drought-weakened pasture resources are healthier than they might be.
There are many advantages to be gained by cooperatively feeding and marketing cattle.
The changes extend the emergency grazing period and allow feeding of hay from expiring CRP acreage.
It appears that following 2006, we entered a new climate pattern, one with warmer and drier weather in the South.
Pasture conditions continue to decline, making it likely that much of the hay required for winter feeding of livestock will be imported from outside sources.
Of all the factors affecting hay quality, stage of maturity when harvested is the most important and the one in which greatest progress can be made.
Escalating unrest in the Middle East is not only going to continue to drive fuel prices up, there’s also a good chance it will do the same to the costs of fertilizing pastures
Dry weather has placed a lot of stress on forages and increased the risk of prussic acid and/or nitrate poisoning
To avoid any health problems in cattle, swine, poultry and other animals, growers are highly encouraged to test the grain for vomitoxin levels.
We are finally getting to see 2018 total beef and pork export numbers.
Charging officers and mounting a moving vehicle, a bull in Sparta, New Jersey was put down by police after it attacked and seriously injured its owner.
A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against San Juan County, Utah, and a local rancher by an environmental rights activist who alleges she was illegally detained and falsely accused in 2017.
Police officers and firefighters in various parts of the country have been lending a hand caring for cattle and here are some social media posts that show them in action.
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture says cattle losses in Nebraska from devastating March floods will be much lower than previously reported.